Domaining News

Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) announced today that it has reached an agreement for Nominet to take over the technical back-end registry functions for up to 28 top level domains within the Group’s portfolio. …

On 7 April 2016, .eu domain names celebrated their tenth anniversary. Since 2006, EURid, the .eu managing registry has offered the .eu extension to residents of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area …

Public Interest Registry, the registry of .org .ngo and .ong among others, published a list of 101 NGOs that have registered new .NGO domain names. This is what Public Interest Registry said about the release …

BrandBucket.com did $2.4 Million in domain name sales in 2015, showing growth for the eighth consecutive year since opening its marketplace in 2007. BrandBucket, founded in 2007, is an online resource for finding unique brandable …

StartingDot, a New gTLD registry, announced that it successfully launched its EPP Premium Name Feature on March 17th. The initial launch made over 1,800 two-letter premium domains from the .ARCHI, .BIO and .SKI TLDs available directly to the general …

Rightside shared some interesting stats about their New gTLD domain name registrations and the overall percentage of developed domains. Rightside claims that 102,721 of their 474,408 (21.7%) registered domains are developed. That seems like a …

ChopChop.domains launched yesterday by TLD Registry, the owner and operator of both Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). On ChopChop.domains users can find and buy Chinese domain names easily, even if they …

Are all .xyz domain name sales real? Over the weekend some articles and comments came out saying that a lot of the .xyz sales are just publicity stunts. The truth is that .xyz does not …

The first version of the Domaining Europe 2016 agenda was published today. The agenda is subject to changes. On Tuesday the 31st of May at 17.00 Domaining Europe is holding the first auction in cooperation …

EURid, the .eu registry, published the annual registrar satisfaction survey. The findings shows that 99% of .eu accredited registrars feel they are overall satisfied with EURid, according to the results of the 2015 Registrar Satisfaction …

Starting Dot announced the premium domain name auction results from the first quarter of 2016. The announcement included domains sold at NamesCon as well as 2-letter domains sold at a .SKI Sedo auction. January saw …

Rightside announced today a pricing promotion on most of its premium domain names. The domains will be sold at premium prices but will carry a $10 renewal rate. The reduced renewal and transfer costs will …

The domain name 1.xyz sold for a record breaking price: $182,971. Several other domain names like hk.xyz, vip.xyz and 66.xyz sold for $30k or more. According to Sold.Domains, a website documenting all New gTLD domain …

On March 26th 2016, an aftermarket auction was held, on which 1049 .top domains were bid and bought, mostly in bulk. The domains were sold for a total of $179,076. There were 4 5-figure sales …